[90011] in Cypherpunks
Re: Key Signing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Nov 14 09:20:38 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:54:28 +0100 (MET)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Reply-To: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Bill Stewart wrote:
> I'm not sure how comfortable I am signing a key which has the
> private keys made public - so I signed it, and revoked it,
> and you're welcome to the signed revocation certificate :-)
BTW, I was farting around and discovered that I could change the
password on a revoked secret key. This means that someone can crack
the password on your revoked secret key if they have access to it.
This would make your new key vulnerable if you used the same password.
I suppose this qualifies as PGP trivia, but if it saves the life of
just one fascist dicator...
!Knott (Who's dare?)
